BUT joos didn't have smileys in their alphabet (those misers didn't even pay for vowels ) and without a winking smiley or other blatant display of humor,

You're right, the closest to a smiley you can make in Hebrew is a one-eyed guy smoking a bong:

This is why English-only is so important. Could you image "Wheel of Fortune" if we let the Jewish Agenda have their way? "I choose the squiggly mess with the gibberish name" "I choose the other squiggly mess with the other gibberish name".